Landscape-scale management of grassland birds in Wisconsin

Duration

July 2009 - September 2021

Narrative

It is widely recognized that grassland obligate birds are declining faster than any other bird community in the Upper Midwest. Traditionally, conservation delivery has taken place opportunistically at the local scale and has ignored the importance of the landscape context in which that work is placed. Understanding how manage at a landscape-level is not well understood. This project is a collaboration across the USGS Wisconsin Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit, US Fish and Wildlife Service, and state natural resource managers in the Midwest. How grassland birds use current grassland systems and baseline densities of focal grassland birds in targeted landscape-scale conservation areas will be established to provide information to develop landscape-scale conservation plans for grassland birds in an adaptive management framework.